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z/OS

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Customization of required jobs for DB2 RSU maintenances based on hold action

This will be useful for those who does quarterly RSU maintenances for DB2 for z/OS. Once the holdaction is ready, there should be a mechanism which can create the required jobs and customize based on the hold action. This can seek the required fie...
3 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

BPX SYNTAXCHECK validation of FILESYSTYPE

As part of the work to migrate systems to z/OS 2.5, I believe many customers are converting HFS files to ZFS, and removing the related HFS definitions from BPXPRMxx. Recently we made a mistake of changing the FILESYSTYPE TYPE(HFS) statement to TYP...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

ZCX / ZOS Communication Server should support multi-IP configurations

For Security-Reasons our firewall blocks traffic to "unusual" ports. So we would like to provide a zCX instance more then one IP like docker on x86 supports. So we can bind connections between host(zcx) and container based on IP-port combinations....
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Enhance SYSDSN to work on GDG generations

The CLIST SYSDSN command does not work on GDG bases or generations. It would be desirable if it worked on them.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

Download RECFM U

If i UPLOAD an RECFM U dataset like a DFDSS DUMP, at DOWNLOAD process the receiving file doesn't have the structure has the UPLOAD process had. So the DOWNLOADED file can't be use to restore file. If you can't improve the DOWNLOAD process ca you a...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Provide REST API for Software Update Plugin

Please provide a REST API that will provide subset of functionality for performing automated updates.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Expand RACF resource OPERCMDS MVS.VARY.WLM to improve protection of WLM application-environments

V WLM,APPLENV=<name>,refresh|quiesce|resume command can be protected by OPERCMDS MVS.VARY.WLM resource. If a userID has this resource permitted, he can issue the "v wlm,applenv..." commands to every application-environment with any operation...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

data collection at DS8000 and RMF Reporting with Ethernet Throughput (in/out) with TCT (transparent Cloud Tiering)

We are using TCT Ethernet Activities not externalized by DS8000 Reporting of Ethernet transfer (in/out) at DS8000 Ethernet-Ports is required to monitor and to plan infrastructure
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Add invoked omvs command to 3.17 command results display

Under ISPF 3.17 one can, if enabled, issue OMVS commands and have the results appear in ISPF Browse or View. It would be very helpful to add to the display the full command that was issued. This is especially helpful if the results are printed/cop...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Add better support to ISPF for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration